Susan Boyle takes musicals in new collection

6:32 PM,
Dec. 7, 2012

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If that's your thing, it's hard to beat the music of Susan Boyle, the British sensation first discovered on "Britain's Got Talent" in 2009, when she performed "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserbles." Her mezzo-soprano voice is well suited to the music of the stage and her fourth album, "Standing Ovation," is proof.

This collection of 11 tracks features some of the best-loved songs from stage musicals, including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," one of those songs that seems to have been done by everyone. Yet Boyle's ...